Stack flew his plane into a building because he wanted to be responsible for doing it himself instead of just having it withheld. Personally, I find that the craziest part of all. I do not under any circumstances want to have to figure out my tax debt every year. I much prefer the "I pay you more than I should all year and then at the end of the year you work out what I should not have paid you."
The only people who don't are those who want to avoid paying their proper share.
For all you know, nearly all 20% projects actually get used - only thing is only a small number of them are visible to end users.
Software engineering involves a lot of false starts. Most crazy ideas are just that, and never see the light of day. Some crazy ideas are just crazy enough to work. I would bet very few 20% projects get used, even within Google.
Though if you have a spare PCIe slot, that would probably give you more throughput. Of course, the model that plugs into PCIe is different from the SATA model.
It's likely you would notice the benefit regardless.
That was a really long-winded way of saying you don't do web design. Unlike RAM it's really easy to swap out web browsers. And all this means is you now have some sort of debugging tools on all major browsers. Which you were testing in anyway if you had half a brain.
Also, Firefox has had Firebug for years. So Chrome wasn't exactly innovating.
I'll lay fourteen of my teeth,--
And yet, to my teeth be it spoken, I have but four--
She is not fourteen. How long is it now
To Lammas-tide?
LADY CAPULET
A fortnight and odd days.
Nurse
Even or odd, of all days in the year,
Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.
Susan and she--God rest all Christian souls!--
Were of an age: well, Susan is with God;
Though a case can be made from that that by "two summers wither in their pride" Capulet meant that he thought 15 1/4 was a good age to marry, since Lammas-eve is July 31, so he would have been saying the fall of her 15th year. But generally I take two summers to mean wait two more years.
I'm beginning to think we should all boycott Google and use Bing. Between the Buzz mess and their outright lies on China (we'll shut off censorship, oh wait, maybe not) I feel like something needs to happen to get their heads out of their asses.
I wouldn't give up my Droid, Gmail, or Google Apps (the alternatives aren't even comparable) but I could live with Bing.
Both were poor solutions. Neither provide a significant increase in quality for most uses. In fact, they both provide a decrease in quality thanks to restrictive DRM (would I rather view this for years at 480p or view it for a couple years at 1080p until the disc is damaged beyond repair? )
To top it all off, both were basically obsolete by the time the studios finished squabbling. Patent law moves way to slow for the pace that tech is improving.
While I don't disagree with you in principle, you're wrong in fact. A little Shakespeare will show it plainly:
PARIS
But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?
CAPULET
But saying o'er what I have said before:
My child is yet a stranger in the world;
She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,
Let two more summers wither in their pride,
Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
PARIS
Younger than she are happy mothers made.
CAPULET
And too soon marr'd are those so early made.
The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she,
She is the hopeful lady of my earth:
In short, people have never thought marrying at 14 a great idea. 16, on the other hand, we see Capulet/Shakespeare finds quite a good age for a girl to marry. And that's when we're suggesting we send some to college, so things haven't changed all that much.
Reminds me of when my uncle brought a copy of Alpha Centauri, and this was back when DRM was such that you could just install it anywhere without any fuss. Me and my brother played it for like 8 hours after my uncle left, my brother over my shoulder suggesting stuff.
When I want to burn a day away I'll still dust it off and pray the scratches haven't accumulated too much (I later bought both it and the expansion, and can't find anywhere to buy a new copy.)
I'm vaguely interested in the new version, but my old Windows machine can't even run Civ IV, and it basically only exists for when I want to boot into XP to enjoy an old game. Now a re-release of Alpha Centauri / Crossfire for Linux, I'd drop $50 on that in a second.
No, if you look around, I'm off base - that's what happens when you get a BA and don't learn anything about modern hardware, only the hardware from the 80's.
But I'm thinking about the case of a computer (like my desktop) which has 4GB of RAM, and if I really need that much RAM I'm likely doing something that's going to flood the whole memory space and cause massive paging anyway - like if I'm loading up the art for a game or something. Once the game is closed, there's no reason to hold all that shit in memory, since even if I play the game again, there's no way of knowing if I'm going to need the same textures, etc.
Also I was thinking about mobile stuff, where all the memory is flash anyway, so you have a ready supply of memory that definitely costs less than RAM.
On the other hand, using flash as RAM isn't the best of ideas thanks to its lifespan.
Gimmicked page rankings? They're by definition gimmicked. If they tried to do it without human intervention 99.99% of of the top 10 results would be porn and scams.
Thanks, that makes sense. Now I'm at a loss to explain why my machine runs hotter the longer I go without rebooting (bearing in mind that I hibernate regularly.) The obvious factor seemed to be used RAM, but maybe that's not it...
I'm assuming you're joking, since I said nothing about amperage, and naturally if we're talking about an actual flip-flop unit in a stick of RAM, we're going to be talking about mA or even nA.
Though full Volts do sound a little excessive for small circuits, and in any case, it doesn't negate the basic point, which is that you have a smaller voltage for 0 and a larger voltage for 1 (or vice versa) and therefore you do have a low-power state if you're holding all 0's or all 1's (depending on which is low-power in your chip.)
You'll excuse my ignorance, but from college I remember that usually you have 0-2V represent 0 and 3-5V represent 1. Does a 0 have a corresponding increase in amperage so that it levels out and uses the same amount of power?
It seems natural to me that it would be initialized with zeroes on power-up, so that it would minimize power consumption.
Furthermore, more advanced chips, especially in mobile devices, have a variety of power-saving tricks. I would expect RAM would be no exception in having ways to clock down in line with requirements.
Bull. Active RAM chews energy, which is terrible for a portable. It also causes problems for the (fast-disappearing) desktop, which will heat up when that much RAM is used.
And it will in fact cause a slowdown when the OS has to free up that RAM cache to load a large file from disk. Frugality is a virtue.
I got news for you, the lack of paper had nothing to do with moving from government to private sector. I'm in the private sector, and my co-workers regularly print out code and spreadsheets (even massive spreadsheets that don't fit on 8 1/2 x 11)
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It's ridiculous. I filled out an application the other day, and they asked me if I had drank an alcoholic beverage in the past 6 months.
They also asked if I had had abnormal test results in the past 10 years. Then they asked for specifics, and I was at an absolute loss.
Stack flew his plane into a building because he wanted to be responsible for doing it himself instead of just having it withheld. Personally, I find that the craziest part of all. I do not under any circumstances want to have to figure out my tax debt every year. I much prefer the "I pay you more than I should all year and then at the end of the year you work out what I should not have paid you."
The only people who don't are those who want to avoid paying their proper share.
Software engineering involves a lot of false starts. Most crazy ideas are just that, and never see the light of day. Some crazy ideas are just crazy enough to work. I would bet very few 20% projects get used, even within Google.
But it's still an excellent use of time.
You can hook it up to the SATA.
Though if you have a spare PCIe slot, that would probably give you more throughput. Of course, the model that plugs into PCIe is different from the SATA model.
It's likely you would notice the benefit regardless.
I will be upgrading when my current one is running at 50% of its present capacity.
The DRM on DVDs is completely broken, so it's easy to back up and sidestep the frailty of the specific physical media.
HDDVD/Blu-ray both have more robust anti-backup mechanisms designed to make the data you've paid for less durable.
That was a really long-winded way of saying you don't do web design. Unlike RAM it's really easy to swap out web browsers. And all this means is you now have some sort of debugging tools on all major browsers. Which you were testing in anyway if you had half a brain.
Also, Firefox has had Firebug for years. So Chrome wasn't exactly innovating.
Assuming you aren't a troll,
She's just under 14. Look at the next scene:
Though a case can be made from that that by "two summers wither in their pride" Capulet meant that he thought 15 1/4 was a good age to marry, since Lammas-eve is July 31, so he would have been saying the fall of her 15th year. But generally I take two summers to mean wait two more years.
I'm beginning to think we should all boycott Google and use Bing. Between the Buzz mess and their outright lies on China (we'll shut off censorship, oh wait, maybe not) I feel like something needs to happen to get their heads out of their asses.
I wouldn't give up my Droid, Gmail, or Google Apps (the alternatives aren't even comparable) but I could live with Bing.
Both were poor solutions. Neither provide a significant increase in quality for most uses. In fact, they both provide a decrease in quality thanks to restrictive DRM (would I rather view this for years at 480p or view it for a couple years at 1080p until the disc is damaged beyond repair? )
To top it all off, both were basically obsolete by the time the studios finished squabbling. Patent law moves way to slow for the pace that tech is improving.
Penny Arcade.
I'm pretty sure that's been in every Civ game.
While I don't disagree with you in principle, you're wrong in fact. A little Shakespeare will show it plainly:
Romeo & Juliet
In short, people have never thought marrying at 14 a great idea. 16, on the other hand, we see Capulet/Shakespeare finds quite a good age for a girl to marry. And that's when we're suggesting we send some to college, so things haven't changed all that much.
Reminds me of when my uncle brought a copy of Alpha Centauri, and this was back when DRM was such that you could just install it anywhere without any fuss. Me and my brother played it for like 8 hours after my uncle left, my brother over my shoulder suggesting stuff.
When I want to burn a day away I'll still dust it off and pray the scratches haven't accumulated too much (I later bought both it and the expansion, and can't find anywhere to buy a new copy.)
I'm vaguely interested in the new version, but my old Windows machine can't even run Civ IV, and it basically only exists for when I want to boot into XP to enjoy an old game. Now a re-release of Alpha Centauri / Crossfire for Linux, I'd drop $50 on that in a second.
No, if you look around, I'm off base - that's what happens when you get a BA and don't learn anything about modern hardware, only the hardware from the 80's.
But I'm thinking about the case of a computer (like my desktop) which has 4GB of RAM, and if I really need that much RAM I'm likely doing something that's going to flood the whole memory space and cause massive paging anyway - like if I'm loading up the art for a game or something. Once the game is closed, there's no reason to hold all that shit in memory, since even if I play the game again, there's no way of knowing if I'm going to need the same textures, etc.
Also I was thinking about mobile stuff, where all the memory is flash anyway, so you have a ready supply of memory that definitely costs less than RAM.
On the other hand, using flash as RAM isn't the best of ideas thanks to its lifespan.
Most rapes aren't reported. It's probably already happened quite a bit.
That was the point of Knol. You don't know if you can trust information unless you know who it's coming from. Then you know you can't trust it.
Gimmicked page rankings? They're by definition gimmicked. If they tried to do it without human intervention 99.99% of of the top 10 results would be porn and scams.
Thanks, that makes sense. Now I'm at a loss to explain why my machine runs hotter the longer I go without rebooting (bearing in mind that I hibernate regularly.) The obvious factor seemed to be used RAM, but maybe that's not it...
I'm assuming you're joking, since I said nothing about amperage, and naturally if we're talking about an actual flip-flop unit in a stick of RAM, we're going to be talking about mA or even nA.
Though full Volts do sound a little excessive for small circuits, and in any case, it doesn't negate the basic point, which is that you have a smaller voltage for 0 and a larger voltage for 1 (or vice versa) and therefore you do have a low-power state if you're holding all 0's or all 1's (depending on which is low-power in your chip.)
You'll excuse my ignorance, but from college I remember that usually you have 0-2V represent 0 and 3-5V represent 1. Does a 0 have a corresponding increase in amperage so that it levels out and uses the same amount of power?
It seems natural to me that it would be initialized with zeroes on power-up, so that it would minimize power consumption.
Furthermore, more advanced chips, especially in mobile devices, have a variety of power-saving tricks. I would expect RAM would be no exception in having ways to clock down in line with requirements.
Bull. Active RAM chews energy, which is terrible for a portable. It also causes problems for the (fast-disappearing) desktop, which will heat up when that much RAM is used.
And it will in fact cause a slowdown when the OS has to free up that RAM cache to load a large file from disk. Frugality is a virtue.
Well... there's actually a fair amount of malware, but if you're running AdAware / Spybot / Antivirus fully patched it mitigates most of it.
Slashdotters are each individual indices for XKCD. (Well, given the actual XKCD index most of us can find a relevant one for any topic.)
I got news for you, the lack of paper had nothing to do with moving from government to private sector. I'm in the private sector, and my co-workers regularly print out code and spreadsheets (even massive spreadsheets that don't fit on 8 1/2 x 11)